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From: brian@cimage.com (Brian Kelley)
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Subject: Garbage collection problem
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Date: 9 Jan 91 19:08:36 GMT
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I'm running GNU emacs version 18.55 on a SparcStation 1 with 16 megs of 
memory running SunOS 4.1.1 (emacs was compiled under version 4.1).  

When editing a not very large file (say 80K) and killing a lot of text 
(going through the file and killing lots of lines, say a few hundred), emacs
will often pause with the message "Garbage-collecting".  It pauses far
too often.  Right now, editing the file described above (deleting lines,
mostly), I find that it will garbage collect every five or so lines I delete!
If I manuall do a garbage-collect, I get a little more uninterrupted editing
time, but I shouldn't have to do that.

What is wrong?  


  Brian

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